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On 4/14/2024 at 11:29 PM, UCyborg said:On 4/14/2024 at 2:11 AM, AstroSkipper said:
I know you have implemented the "redirect-rule" directive in your new release. But if one wants to make your version 1.16.6b1 not perform such redirections, the entry ignoreRedirectFilters can be set from false to true in the advanced settings. Then your version 1.16.6b1 will behave like version 1.16.4.30 up to 1.16.4.34 again although this entry has the default value false in these versions which I never had to or intended to change. But when doing so, these strange noop.txt and noop.js entries are no longer in the logger.
You'd have to set that setting in the older version as well if you wanted the exact same behavior in that regard. Redirection concept was introduced in version 1.4.0. "uBlock filters – Ads" filter list for instance has more filters using "redirect-rule" rather than "redirect". "redirect-rule" by itself doesn't do anything, it's only effective in combination with another blocking filter, that's the difference between the two.
Now, I have checked my version using the uBO logger. In the testing profile where I have installed uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.34 with the same filter lists enabled as in your version 1.16.6b1, I can't identify any entries about noop.txt or noop.js when calling up the Ad Blocker Test site, although the preference ignoreRedirectFilters is definitely set there to false. So, I assume it must have to do something with your recent changes related to the implementation of the "redirect-rule" network filter option https://github.com/UCyborg/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/commit/02795267a3ecc24b46df2c563ea55d102397af09.
Hope this information is useful for you. 
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18 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
I did not start in this thread to discuss the Cloudflare test.
I just wrote (between the lines) that it doesn't matter if the last test is failed.
Try you and the multiple account (which I don't even respond to because it is useless now) to call others out as well when they go OT in a topic.
Avoid replying because I will not respond to other interventions.Actually, it doesn't matter who has started going off-topic. Such discussions are simply misleading for readers of this thread because they might think that Mypal 68 could have such technologies as ECH, which of course is not the case at all. And I don't understand what you actually mean by "the multiple accounts".
That also seems to me to be quite incomprehensible and off-topic.
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2 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
As I used to tell my students, a picture is worth more than 100 words.
In my ECH browser it is always on.In the website below ECH is active.
Sites like this are in the minority.
In the website below, ECH is not active.
99.9% of websites are in this situation.
This thread is about Mypal 68. I don't understand at all why technologies are being presented here that are aimed at much more modern browsers.
To put it simply, I think such comments are off-topic and should be done in a thread related to an appropriate topic.
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And to be on topic again, VPN is an abbreviation for Virtual Private Network. The emphasis is therefore on Private. I don't think I need to say any more at this point.
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3 hours ago, 66cats said:3 hours ago, Dixel said:
Government is a political organisation
Sometimes, jokes need to be explained. At such times, i thank Google.
Governments should be political organisations but some of them are organisations only, who are nevertheless responsible for their citizens, but their citizens are also responsible for such "governments".
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2 minutes ago, 66cats said:
You're mistaken. Remember, Google is still your friend
But you're very wrong. Google is nobody's friend.
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1 hour ago, 66cats said:2 hours ago, Saxon said:
Using VPN is illegal in Russia
"Goverment"-approved VPNs are no VPNs in that country.
1 hour ago, 66cats said:2 hours ago, Saxon said:According to the Russian laws, you're here illegally and you will be prosecuted.
? NotHereToPlayGames is either using a government-sanctioned VPN, is a scofflaw, or is not posting from Russia. Struggle to see how this is relevant to the thread, explain?
You misquoted Saxon. The quoted statement
2 hours ago, Saxon said:4 hours ago, Xao_Fan-Tzilin said:you are again making political maxims (you remember that this is prohibited?)
don’t shove your hatred into every hole!
Using VPN is illegal in Russia, let me ask you, what are you doing here in the first place?
According to the Russian laws, you're here illegally and you will be prosecuted.
was not addressed to @NotHereToPlayGames, but to someone else. See my quote!
And TBH, something like this shouldn't really happen. And certainly not to a native speaker if you are one.
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20 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
I wouldn't call it "safety", more along the lines of "privacy".
When I talk about data protection and internet security, it's always about privacy.
20 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:One school of thought is "I'm not doing anything 'wrong', let them collect all the data they want".
The other school of thought is "I was fired for saying something online, after hours, not work-related, not even a high-traffic web site, but the boss didn't agree with my statement".
I belong to neither the one nor the other school you mentioned. And people who spread all sorts of ill-considered stuff on the Internet or are willing to give away unlimited data can't be helped anyway.
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22 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:
Your statement certainly applies to the USA
Agreed as far as other countries. I was answering an enquiry from a fellow USA member
I just wanted to counter the impression I've gained here in the last few pages that you can't really do anything for your own internet safety.
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2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Your ISP knows your traffic whether or not you use their DNS resolver or somebody else's DNS resolver, be that through your web browser, your OS, or your routers DNS capabilities.
So you can either do it all through your ISP or you set a different DNS and now you've DOUBLED the amount of "data" collected 'in your name' because now your ISP and that third-party DNS has logged your every move.
That depends on which country you live in and how data protection is organised there. Your statement certainly applies to the USA, but not to Germany, for example. Here is a link to a provider with no-logging policy that I would trust and whose server can be used even as a normal DNS resolver: Freifunk München
I would use this service if I didn't trust my local provider. But in my country, data protection is a valuable asset. So I just use my local provider with own DNS resolver. But I could increase safety considerably if I wanted to. All inside my country. 
And if I were also to use one of my paid VPN services with a no log strategy outside my country, then ...
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33 minutes ago, UCyborg said:
Technically, they're not really conventional files for main part of the operation, they live as memory resident data structures that can be obtained using a name resembling a file name, basically JavaScript Map containing a bunch of objects, each containing MIME type, encoding and the actual data.
Initially they're read from assets/ublock/resources.txt in the XPI file, on subsequent extension startups they'll be read from the ublock0.sqlite database most of the time. These resources are updatable via online repository in these older versions.
You'd have to set that setting in the older version as well if you wanted the exact same behavior in that regard. Redirection concept was introduced in version 1.4.0. "uBlock filters – Ads" filter list for instance has more filters using "redirect-rule" rather than "redirect". "redirect-rule" by itself doesn't do anything, it's only effective in combination with another blocking filter, that's the difference between the two.
Thank you for this deeper insight! I have never dealt with this before and was initially a little confused about these noop files.
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18 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:On 4/13/2024 at 10:16 AM, UCyborg said:
These filters are usually written to redirect to local empty/stub resource.
When these empty files noop.txt and noop.js are returned, will they be stored locally on the computer? Where are they generated at all? And what exactly means local in this context?
Local file on the server, local file on the client/computer? In any case, I couldn't find such files. TBH, this all is a bit confusing. 
I found, for example, this redirect rule in the filter list uBlock filters – Unbreak:
||cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace$xhr,3p,redirect-rule=noop.txt,domain=~funimation.com|~1bit.space|~1bitspace.com
Looking at the code, it seems that the file noop.txt will be created by uBO locally on the computer. Right?
Is it only generated for milliseconds and then immediately deleted again? That would at least explain why I couldn't find it. Anyway! I would like to understand this redirection mechanism in more detail.
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@UCyborg I know you have implemented the "redirect-rule" directive in your new release. But if one wants to make your version 1.16.6b1 not perform such redirections, the entry ignoreRedirectFilters can be set from false to true in the advanced settings. Then your version 1.16.6b1 will behave like version 1.16.4.30 up to 1.16.4.34 again although this entry has the default value false in these versions which I never had to or intended to change. But when doing so, these strange noop.txt and noop.js entries are no longer in the logger. The network filter @@*$redirect-rule was only introduced in version 1.22 and therefore cannot be used. Although I understand the idea of such redirections, especially to prevent breakage of websites when blocking certain content, these entries in the logger do personally bother me if I am honest.
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15 hours ago, UCyborg said:
These filters are usually written to redirect to local empty/stub resource.
When these empty files noop.txt and noop.js are returned, will they be stored locally on the computer? Where are they generated at all? And what exactly means local in this context?
Local file on the server, local file on the client/computer? In any case, I couldn't find such files. TBH, this all is a bit confusing.
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1 hour ago, nicolaasjan said:
Works here as well (I have put it on Dropbox and use that link in my custom filters, so I'm not bothered by the connection error
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I also have the userscript.
When using my updated, fixed release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.34, then there are no network connection errors anymore. Have a look at my release!
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13 hours ago, VistaLover said:
... But, sadly, it'll become less effective by the day, as "affected services" will defeat it sooner rather than later
(see the comment about NYT in the screengrab above) ...
The filter list of version 3.6.3.2 still works on www.nytimes.com.
Just tested.
12 hours ago, billmcct said:I am and have been using an extension called "Paywall Pass" for quite some time. It gets me past NYTs blocks and many others.
It's in the CAA.
The last version Paywall Pass 0.0.3.1 does not work (anymore?
I can't judge it ) on www.nytimes.com, unfortunately. Just tested. And TBH, this extension has not been updated since 2015. Any kind of such technology is subject to a game of cat and mouse. The one who is more up-to-date is ahead for a short time. But thanks for pointing to this extension anyway!
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2 hours ago, UCyborg said:
The difference is 1.16.6b1 understands "redirect-rule" directive, these explicitly state blocking of target resource is optional, so when the request to such resource is issued, it will be redirected even in presence of another blocking filter. These filters are usually written to redirect to local empty/stub resource.
That test website appears to fetch number of files from various ad domains. I suppose it expects fetches to fail entirely, which doesn't happen when it's being redirected. So uBlock still prevented access to resource the site was asking for, but rather than making it look like it failed, it just returned a local empty file. noop.txt would be an empty text file while noop.js would be a JavaScript file that executes a function that doesn't do anything.
I see an issue with the logger here that logs redirection taking place, but not the filter that caused it.
Thanks for clarification! And indeed the entries generated by the logger of your version were strange and led to a slight confusion for me.
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7 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:
I have a backup of the latest uBO list, the userscript, as well as the Firefox and Chrome webextensions (MV2 unfortunately...).
Thanks for that!
Such files are worth to backup and prevent them from disappearing.
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11 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
Update notification!
- uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.34 - Special mod by @AstroSkipper
I have again updated my special mod uBlock Origin Legacy from version 1.16.4.33 to version 1.16.4.34. Starting with this version, installing over an existing installation of uBlock Origin Legacy (1.16.4.34 and higher) is completely working again. The immediate loading of the updated, internal list of all preselected filter lists (assets.json) can be triggered by the function "Purge all caches" or "Update now". From now on, the user will get the internal list of all preselected filter lists (assets.json) automatically. And I added new filter lists to different groups. More details can be found in the changelog in my main article, and of course the download link.
The update to version 1.16.4.34 should be done as already described, but this time for the very last time. The easiest way is the alternative method:- Backup all your settings using the "Back up to file" button on the page "Settings".
- Install the new version of uBlock Origin Legacy over the existing one.
- Reset your installation using the "Reset to default settings" button on the page "Settings".
- Restore all settings from your backup file.
Cheers, AstroSkipper
Please re-download the file uBlock-Origin-Legacy-1.16.4.34-special-mod-by-@AstroSkipper.xpi if you have already downloaded it and have fun!
After installing, click the button "Purge all caches" if installing over the previously downloaded version 1.16.4.34!
Cheers, AstroSkipper
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3 minutes ago, VistaLover said:
... From reddit:
... But, sadly, it'll become less effective by the day, as "affected services" will defeat it, sooner rather than later
(see the comment about NYT in the screengrab above) ...
That was totally clear to me and I didn't expect anything else. But the list can still be useful for a while.
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3 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:
I understand, but it wouldnt be possible to upload the list somewhere where we can download it?
Amigafever, Vistalover - thanks for your help regarding this.
3 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:I understand, but it wouldnt be possible to upload the list somewhere where we can download it?
Amigafever, Vistalover - thanks for your help regarding this.
I have just copied my previously downloaded list from my installation with the version number 3.6.3.2. Therefore, this last version can't disappear.
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15 minutes ago, Amigafever said:
Looks like that user account has been blocked on GitLab, so the filterlist doesn't update any more.
Thanks for the update, AstroSkipper!
3 minutes ago, VistaLover said:The project (and all its associated files) was hosted on GitLab :
Several hours ago, on Fri Apr 12th 2024, that repo has been taken down (or made private by its owner), because now any attempt to access above URL redirects to a "https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in" page (that is, after being submitted to CF-based challenges
) ...
I suspect one or more of the "affected services"
have issued DMCA requests to GitLab, because the project, in the form of Chromium and Firefox extensions, had met with similar fate in the past... FWIW, that filter list had an accompanying userscript,
... which also can't be updated any more
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The filter list was being served from:
The filter list and userscript are now stuck for me at versions 3.6.3.2
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Best regards
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Yep! This user has been blocked. Thanks for pointing to this issue!
If this list doesn't appear anymore elsewhere, then I will have to remove this list from my release again, for better or worse.
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4 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:
Thank you for your help, it worked. I only have one problem to report now: The bypass paywalls clean filter cant be updated. No idea why.
Glad it works.
I hadn't any problems when updating this filter list, though. When I am back at my Windows XP computer. I will have a look at this.
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44 minutes ago, Felipefpl said:
Hi, i tried the new version and indeed the settings are saved but i cant see the new filters' list added in the sections. I installed over the old installation and even deleted the old version and made a new installation and nothing changed. I'm on latest basilisk.
Hello @Felipefpl! Do once again a clean install! That means you have to manually delete the file ublock0.sqlite inside your profile subfolder extension-data.
But don't forget to backup your settings and rules first! BTW, I tested updating from version 1.16.4.33 to version 1.16.4.34 and didn't notice any problems when doing this with the alternative method.
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All inside my country. 
Just tested. And TBH, this extension has not been updated since 2015. Any kind of such technology is subject to a game of cat and mouse. The one who is more up-to-date is ahead for a short time. 
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Yep! Multiple readers are using Mypal 68 and would be very pleased if they could read here something about this browser.